Miami Dolphins

I have a proposal for Miami Dolphins CEO Mike Dee and owner Steve Ross: Just sell the Dolphin training camp to the town of Davie. They will buy any property at an inflated price, well over market value. Then the Dolphins can use Sun Life Stadium for a training camp, and use the stadium, too, the rest of the year for concerts, carnival celebrations and other events. They could also use the money made from selling the training camp for a huge profit to pay for modifications to the Marlins stadium before it is completed to play home games.

The only thing that has been consistent about the Miami Dolphins during the Joe Philbin era is that his teams have been consistently inconsistent. Blame it on the team's talent level, coaching, former or present general managers, quarterback play, injuries, the weather, or how the moon aligns with the stars on game day. Blame Miami's schizophrenic nature on whatever you'd like, but it is hard to argue that Philbin's teams have been quite uneven throughout his two-plus seasons as a coach.

The Carolina Panthers are the only team that the Miami Dolphins are undefeated against in team history during the regular season (4-0), while the Houston Texans are the only franchise that they have never defeated (0-5). Despite the Miami Dolphins' struggles in recent seasons, they still own the second-best regular-season record since the NFL merger of 1970, going 379- 251-2 (.602). The Pittsburgh Steelers are tops during that span with a mark of 384-246-2 (.610). The Dallas Cowboys (373-259, .590)

The Miami Dolphins secondary got called out by defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle during the defensive meeting on Saturday. "He stood up there and told us we've got too many playmakers to not have an interception," said safety Jimmy Wilson, who pulled down one of the team's three interceptions on Sunday. Ryan Tannehill claims he had the most challenging week of his NFL career because his coach wouldn't admit he's the team's starting quarterback. He responded with a 109.3 passer rating, which triggered the Dolphins' 38-14 pummeling of the Oakland Raiders.

The Miami Dolphins schedule won't be released for some time, but their opponents for next season have been determined by their third-place finish in the AFC East. Miami will have their usual home and away games against the New England Patriots, New York Jets and Buffalo Bills. In addition, the Dolphins will play at home against Jacksonville, Tennessee, St. Louis, Seattle and Oakland. Among the opponents traveling to South Florida, only the Patriots have made the playoffs this season.

The Miami Dolphins will open the NFL season on Monday night, Sept. 12 against the New England Patriots on ESPN. The Dolphins also will be on the road for the holidays. Miami travels to Dallas on Nov. 24 for the Thanksgiving Day game against the Cowboys and to New England on Christmas Eve to face the Patriots. The Dec. 24th game will be the second consecutive cold weather game against a division rival. Miami travels to Buffalo the Sunday before. Miami travels twice to New York in October: the 17th against the Jets and the 30th against the Giants.

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DAVIE - The Miami Dolphins announced Wednesday they have signed left tackle Chandler Burden, and waived guard Dustin Waldron. Both players were undrafted free agents last spring. Burden, 22, originally signed in May with the Tennessee Titans. He was waived July 25. Burden (6-4, 313 pounds) was a two-year starting left tackle for at the University of Kentucky with 26 starts in 43 career games. He began his collegiate career at defensive end after beginning his collegiate career as a defensive end.

Anyone expecting Knowshon Moreno to get healthy and immediately take over as the Miami Dolphins starting tailback might want to put those thoughts on pause. The way Lamar Miller has been playing this season - which includes a 64-yard and two-touchdown rushing performance in Sunday's 38-14 win over the Oakland Raiders - the former University of Miami standout might be proving he's a legitimate NFL starter. After four games Miller is averaging 5.7 yards on his 49 carries.

LONDON - Two of the Miami Dolphins' eight draft picks will play in their first NFL regular season game against the Oakland Raiders. Linebacker Jordan Tripp, a former Montana standout the Dolphins selected in the fifth round, and defensive end Terrence Fede, a former Marist standout the Dolphins selected in the seventh-round, are active for the first time this season. Tripp has been sidelined by a chest injury he suffered in the exhibition season finale, and Fede has spent the past month rehabbing an injured knee.

One is tall and skinny. The other is short and stocky. One is loud and brash, often oozing emotion. The other is gentle and calculated, difficult to stir. The old adage is that teams usually take on the personality of their head coach. Joe Philbin and Tony Sparano, the current and former coach of the Miami Dolphins, are polar opposites in so many ways. Yet somehow, some way they have found themselves on similar paths, facing common challenges trying to right the ship of South Florida's NFL franchise.

The strangest part of this mess? It's not how Joe Philbin misplayed another small issue into something smelly. It's not that in Year 3 he keeps having to learn fundamental lessons any NFL coach already should have learned. It's not even that as the Dolphins coach worked on a new continent Friday he proclaimed, henceforth and forevermore, the weekly depth chart will answer tricky questions that trip him up like, "Who's your starting quarterback?" This was all so silly, so unnecessary, for Philbin to expose his inability to do something as basic as answer a softball question and unintentionally upset quarterback Ryan Tannehill.

LONDON - The Miami Dolphins began this week's practices without Randy Starks and Chris McCain, and it appears they will play the Oakland Raiders on Sunday without the two defenders. Starks, the Dolphins' starting defensive tackle since 2009, has been battling a back issue that has kept him from practice all week, and he did not make the trip to London. His streak of playing in 111 straight NFL games will come to an end. Jared Odrick and Earl Mitchell, who have each started multiple NFL games during their careers, will start Sunday's game for the Dolphins.

Look hard enough at the Miami Dolphins players participating in the team's walk-through, which was held at Allianz Park, home of Saracens F.C. rugby team, and it wouldn't be hard to spot a player or coach yawning. "At this point a lot of us are tired," receiver Brian Hartline admitted after the Friday morning practice, which came directly after the team exited its red-eye flight from Fort Lauderdale to London, where the Dolphins are playing the Oakland Raiders in the NFL's first of three International games this season.

The Miami Dolphins are changing radio homes again. After spending the past three years back on WQAM (560-AM), the Dolphins have chosen not to exercise their option for 2010. "Life will go on," WQAM general manager Joe Bell wrote in an email sent to staff members. Clear Channel will take over the broadcast rights, sources said, with Dolphins games heading for potential simulcasts on Y-100 FM and either WINZ (940-AM) or WIOD (610-AM). Miami Heat games are aired on 940. The switch likely means the end of the popular analysis of Jim Mandich and Joe Rose on Dolphins radio broadcasts.

The Miami Dolphins got a head start on the Aug. 31 cut-down day to 75, by waiving running back Tristan Davis, nose tackle Travis Ivey and tight end Kory Sperry before practice Monday. Sperry, a free agent signing last year from the Chargers, played eight games for the Dolphins in 2009, including one start. However, once the Dolphins re-signed tight end David Martin before training camp Sperry's days were numbered. Davis , a free agent signing out of Auburn last year, spent a few months on the Dolphins' practice squad.

LONDON - Miami Dolphins center has spent the past three months rehabbing his surgically repaired hip with the goal of playing in this Sunday's game against the Oakland Raiders, which will be played in London. The Dolphins' fourth game of the season was the one the team's Pro Bowl center had circled on his calendar, but it appears the Dolphins' medical staff won't clear Pouncey to play in his second straight game since returning to practices. Pouncey, who has started 46 games in his four NFL seasons, is certain he won't play against Oakland.